Improving circulation can also help with other health problems. Improving your circulation can help some of the health problems that you might feel in your back, neck, hips or even your knees. Improving circulation to these areas will help the aches and pains go away. The simplest exercise for circulation improvement for your neck, shoulders and back is to do a flexibility test. This test will have you on your back while lifting one leg and leaving the other relaxed on the floor. Keep the lifted leg as straight as possible without locking your knee joint. While holding this pose you will want to try and pull the up leg forward and closer to your upper body. Start slowly and over time you will be able to pull the leg closer. This pose allows for more oxygen to move through your blood and muscles improving your circulation.

Another good way for improving circulation is to start doing yoga. Yoga is exercise but it is also used for flexibility training. Yoga will help get the blood flow and oxygen moving through your muscles better because of all the stretching that you do in Yoga. Yoga moves are great for stretching your muscles to promote the flow of blood and great for building flexibility which will also help move your blood around. Yogis, or very experienced yoga users, are said to actually control their circulation by the use of yoga moves and postures.

Improving circulation can also be done with the food you eat and drink.

• Water can help improve your circulation by keeping you properly hydrated. Drink about 6-8 glasses of water a day for the best results.


• Eat plenty of green and leafy vegetables, fruit and whole grains. Eat fish and poultry in smaller portions. These foods provide the proper nourishment to your body and will help the blood flow which will then improve your circulation.


• Along with drinking water you will also want to drink lemonade with real lemon juice to prevent any stones that can form from poor circulation.


• Increase the foods you eat that contain magnesium and vitamins B6. Take supplements if you need to.


• Limit your intake of sugar, alcohol, protein, dairy products, salt and caffeine. Foods that contain these products can actually cause other problems along with your poor circulation.

The best ways to improving circulation is to exercise regularly. Walking and yoga are the best for any body type or size. Next keep to a well balanced diet free of sugars, salts and other products. Keeping a record of times of poor circulation can help you to see what helps your circulation and what makes it worse. The record can help you to create exercises that can help you or even to create a diet that can help improve your circulation.